Latest Kelly Carlin-McCall Quotes from Interviews

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• If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Moving, Creative, Victim

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• There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, we're saying, "Oh, I'm laughing at myself, which means my victimhood isn't all of who I am."

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Pain, Mean, Past

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• My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Mother, Healing, Laughing

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• I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Thinking, Sensitive, Perfectionism

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• I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Laughing, Able, Used

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• There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client to feel safe enough to turn their vision in towards themselves and their experience in the moment and to reveal things that usually carry a lot of shame or that kind of stuff around.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Jobs, Real, Safety

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• I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Creativity, Love Is, Thinking

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• Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Successful, Creative, Essentials

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• The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that I wanted to work with people who are more functioning and that's when I decided to pursue my performance career full-time.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Careers, People, Important

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

• I remember going on vacation for two weeks once and one of my clients who was very clinically depressed really could not handle it, really unraveled himself. That scared me. I didn't want to be in that position.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Vacation, Two, Clients

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• Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Hands, People, Too Much

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• I had a client who just wanted to entertain me the whole time, that is a defense against going deep, in my mind. What happens when the jokester is not allowed to deflect with humor? You then have to feel the pain, and learn that you can survive it. It makes you more resilient and stronger in the long run, and your sense of humor will always be there. Being able to see the funny is deep.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Running, Pain, Long

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• Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

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• [Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Needs, Used, Therapists

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• When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Heavy, Situation

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• I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Mother, Negative, Needs

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• You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Knowing Who You Are, Culture, Roles

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• If you're never called, then you don't know any better. If you are called and don't answer the call, then that is the most difficult and painful. If you are called and do answer the call, it is the adventure of your life.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Adventure, Answers, Painful

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• For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from the imagination and a response to the environment, as you know. So they're both very similar in that way because it's about one's inner life interacting with the environment and what comes from that.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Art, Creativity, Imagination

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

• One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it all, and that really called to me.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Class, Reason, Artwork

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• I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Calling, Way, Path

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• I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Circles, People, Kind

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• If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Real, Artist, Skills

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• With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to study Jungian psychology and archetypes and mythology and there were many different programs there.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Interesting, Psychology, Different

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• The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Powerful, Medicine, Self

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